Podcast: Hector Rodriguez argues brick-and-mortar health care
consolidation is short-sighted
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Practice Capabilities And Spending
Hector Rodriguez and coauthors examine the association of physician
practice-level capabilities with process measures of quality,
utilization, and spending
using a nationally representative set of physician practices linked to
Medicare claims.
The authors find that physician practices with robust capabilities
across domains of technology, management, and patient-centered focus
have lower total spending on Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries
compared to practices with more limited capabilities.
Savings are concentrated in outpatient spending, which has important
policy implications "because value-based payment reforms have largely
focused on preventing emergency department and hospitalization use as a
primary way to reduce total spending," Rodriguez and coauthors
explain.
Rodriguez discusses health care consolidation
in greater detail with Health Affairs editor-in-chief Alan Weil on an
episode of A Health Podyssey.
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Elsewhere At Health Affairs
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Mariam Krikorian Atkinson and
coauthors examine the challenges and advantages
that rural hospitals have faced during the pandemic.
Based on conversations with emergency management leaders at 12 different
hospitals, the authors glean several lessons for rural hospitals
responding to a crisis.
Elevating Voices: Women's History Month: In the May 2021 Narrative
Matters essay, Krista Lyn Harrison describes how the hospice model fails
when patients die slowly.
"Hospice has become care for people dying fast, not for those trying
to live well while dying slow," Harrison writes as she recounts her
stepfather's experience in hospice with a neurodegenerative disease.
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Hector Rodriguez Argues Brick-And-Mortar Health Care Consolidation Is
Short-Sighted
Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Hector
Rodriguez from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health about the
relationship between physician practice capabilities and service
metrics, including quality, utilization, and spending.
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Daily Digest
Physician Practices With Robust Capabilities Spend Less On Medicare
Beneficiaries Than More Limited Practices
Hector P. Rodriguez et al.
Do Rural Hospitals Have An Advantage During A Pandemic?
Mariam Krikorian Atkinson et al.
The Hidden Curriculum Of Hospice: Die Fast, Not Slow
Krista Lyn Harrison
Podcast: Hector Rodriguez Argues Brick-And-Mortar Health Care
Consolidation Is Short-Sighted
Alan Weil and Hector P. Rodriguez
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